Re: [LINK] Buying a dot-word domain address

On 03/03/15 14:35, Brendan wrote: > It's interesting that the list is of English words. Will this be a > form of balkanisation of the Internet I wonder? There are plenty of non–English and non–Latin gTLDs: ___

Re: [LINK] Fwd: No battery backup

On 01/03/15 22:07, Paul Brooks wrote: > Other ISPs use the NBN voice ports to provide telephony - Telstra does not. This is no longer true as of mid-2013. Telstra provides voice services over the UNI-V port. ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.

Re: [LINK] Net Neutrality in US

On 06/02/15 12:28, Jim Birch wrote: > OTOH Australian ISP are sitting on a more-or-less open infrastructure > and are not milking vertical markets like happens (relentlessly) in > the US. What seems to be the major gripe in the US is ISP puts the > brake on say Netflix to "enhance" their own video

Re: [LINK] Net Neutrality in US

On 06/02/15 09:21, Jan Whitaker wrote: > [Do we have this in Australia?] Unmetering (*) is the polar opposite of net neutrality. Which services are unmetered on a particular ISP may influence your choice of ISP, so Australian ISPs are definitely not “neutral”. -- (*) e.g. quota-free file downlo

Re: [LINK] From my friend re NBN change

On 11/12/14 22:30, Paul Brooks wrote: > 3. Telstra appear to be forcing all NBN connections to buy and > connect a Telstra-provided home gateway/router to the NBN connection > to provide the telephone service as VoIP using the Telstra gateway, > not using the in-built VoIP capability of the NBN box

Re: [LINK] From my friend re NBN change

On 13/12/14 00:02, Rachel Polanskis wrote: > What I would like to know, is that my NBN ONT interface has 4 > ethernet ports but we only use one, with the Cisco WAN port > configured. Is it possible for example, to stick our VOIP phone on > one of the ports and configure it to work like that, rather

Re: [LINK] RFI: Clock Synchronisation in Hosts

On 12/11/14 12:21, Roger Clarke wrote: > My MacOSX 10.4.11 Date and Time tool has the 'Set date & time > automatically' option set, pointed at Apple Asia's server at > time.asia.apple.com. Given that OS X v10.4 has been EOL since Sep 2009, that’s not your only worry. __

Re: [LINK] Can't even fake an address properly

On 10/11/14 13:08, Jan Whitaker wrote: > What are the phishers coming to? Made me laugh. > > From: "Telstra" This is nothing new, and if anything, more effective than using the genuine domain thanks to increased enforcement of SPF records. ___ Link m

Re: [LINK] Our government does it again

On 03/10/14 16:05, David Boxall wrote: > I just tried to create a myGov account. Trouble is, it wouldn't accept > my email address, which is on a .name domain. They're evidently using a > truly ancient validation routine. Worked for me, as of 2014-08-30, anyways. If it is indeed broken, I am tr

Re: [LINK] Telstra experience today

On 21/07/14 16:24, Jan Whitaker wrote: > 'No problems!' /me puts away pitchfork with bitter disappointment ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Question re spoofing with bad reply address

On 11/07/14 15:44, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Why anonymous - can't you require them to STARTTLS+AUTH, even on port 25? Some people have their head in the sand and continue to purchase equipment that doesn't support TLS nor SMTP authentication. And proceed to blame me when it doesn't work. I'd te

Re: [LINK] Question re spoofing with bad reply address

On 11/07/14 14:27, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Well, if for no other reason than that many ISPs insist that you use > their mail server for outgoing email Who does this? I would invite you to name-and-shame them. But before you do so, check that you are sending outbound as port 587 (STARTTLS) or

Re: [LINK] Question re spoofing with bad reply address

Hi Stephen, On 09/07/14 17:35, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > SPF is broken by design (consider forwarding - including mailing > lists). That’s because you’re forwarding incorrectly. SPF validation is done based on the envelope, not the To/From headers, and all good mailing list software will fix

Re: [LINK] Disable clipboard for password input

On 30/06/14 08:48, Paul Bolger wrote: > My mobile phone company recently redid their website. When I tried to > log in to the new site - using my normal method, copy and paste the > password out of KeepassX - I discovered that they have disabled > clipboard access to the password input field via ja

Re: [LINK] ABC site problems ...

On 14/05/2014 22:58, Frank O'Connor wrote: > I've had problems with inputting any data onto the ABC site for the > last month or so ... all I get are innocuously numbered server > errors. Take an accurate note of the actual symptoms, and send them to:

Re: [LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

On 7 May 2014, at 18:13, Andy Farkas wrote: > On 07/05/14 09:48, Jim Birch wrote: >> My feeling would be that the vast majority of air accidents >> occur due to deviations from accepted best practice, eg, pilot error. > > Have you never watched the "Air Crash Investigation" TV show? > > Type it

Re: [LINK] Fwd: [PRIVACY] [apfma] AAP: AFP to use DPI to collect email metadata

On 10/12/13 18:06, Kim Holburn wrote: > Mostly emails end up going between your server and your recipient's > server in the clear, although that may start to change. This is called Opportunistic TLS. It's already used by default in recent versions of Exim and in Microsoft Exchange 2007 and onwar

Re: [LINK] ABC i view changes

On 18 Nov 2013, at 10:13 am, Noel Butler wrote: > You've never disabled all the "call home" options, then run only chrome > and a tcpdump session? > ET still calls home. Do you have a blog? I’d be interested to see an analysis of that. ___ Link mail

Re: [LINK] shafted by my ISP [iinet]: how often does this happen in Australia?

On 21/10/2013, at 4:23 PM, Andrew Thornton wrote: > I may have been incorrectly given a shaped profile. > > I disagree that this is a technical issue. As someone who works for an ISP, and (just maybe) knows a thing or two about these kinds of issues -- if a shaping profile was incorrectly appl

Re: [LINK] NSW Police photographing numberplates and storing data for five years, Four Corners reports

On 09/09/2013, at 8:32 AM, Kim Holburn wrote: >> New South Wales Police cars are photographing the numberplates of every >> vehicle they pass on the state's roads and storing the data in a vast >> searchable database with more than 200 million entries. >> >> Digital cameras attached to 280 vehi

Re: [LINK] Dull Chrome

On 30/08/13 16:45, Roger Clarke wrote: > I thought Google employed *clever* people. > > Users of the popular web browser Google Chrome are warned that > passwords (saved by the browser) are not secured properly, leading to > any other user being able to view all passwords that you have saved. T

Re: [LINK] NBNCo Report

On 22/04/2013, at 5:49 AM, Paul Brooks wrote: > And Youtube introduced HD videos, and ABC iView / Yahoo-7 catchup has > adaptive CODECs > for better quality streams on higher bandwidth links I'm curious to see a source for your statement regarding adaptive codecs on ABC iView. Given your reply,